Bonus Pod: Trump Pushes for Keystone Pipeline & Backs Elon's Email to Government Workers
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What are the highlights of today's 47 Morning Update?
Good Tuesday morning. It's Ben Ferguson with you. It's nice to have you on the 47 Morning Update. And here are the big stories we're talking about today. First up, Donald Trump not taking the bait from the media. Backing Elon Musk's email to government employees asked him, what did you do in the last week at work? I'll have the details on that in a moment. Also, you may remember the Keystone Pipeline. Democrats did everything they could do to shut it down, and it cost countless people their jobs in this country. Well, now Donald Trump has a plan to bring the Keystone Pipeline back. And finally, Marco Rubio says enough already, ripping the United Nations and many of the war hawks that are obsessed with keeping the war going between Russia and Ukraine. It's the 47 Morning Update, and it starts right now. Story number one.
On Saturday, Elon Musk, who was appointed by President Donald Trump to lead the Department of Government Efficiency, known as DOGE, issued an email to all federal employees with the subject line, what did you do last week? Now, the email requested that employees submit a list of five accomplishments from the previous week by 11.59 p.m. on Monday night.
What was the content of Elon's email to federal employees?
Musk stated that non-responses would be considered resignations. This directive led to, quote, widespread confusion, the media states, and resistance across various federal agencies trying to find a crack in the armor with Donald Trump and Elon Musk to start a war between the two men. Well, the president made it pretty clear he wants to know who's even reading their emails. Well, I'm pushing back on you, not on Elon Musk or his email.
Doge said... Do you think that Doge could benefit from more streamlined communications? There was that email telling employees to give five things that they've done last week. Agency heads then told people to ignore it.
The last email that was sent where he wanted to know what you did this week. You know why he wanted that, by the way? I thought it was great because we have people that don't show up to work and nobody even knows if they work for the government. So by asking the question, tell us what you did this week. What he's doing is saying, are you actually working?
Why is there controversy over Elon's directive to federal employees?
And then if you don't answer, like you're sort of semi fired or you're fired because a lot of people are not answering because they don't even exist. They're trying to find that's how badly various parts of our government were run by and especially by this last group. So what they're doing is they're trying to find out who's working for the government. Are we paying other people that aren't working? And, you know, where is all this? Where's the money going? So I think it was actually, there was a lot of genius in sending it. We're trying to find out if people are working. And so we're sending a letter to people, please tell us what you did last week. If people don't respond, it's very possible that there is no such person or they're not working.
Some of the agency heads instructed their employees not to respond because they were waiting on further guidance, but Elon Musk's tweet said a failure to respond would be taken as a resignation, so there's been a disconnect in communications.
Are you concerned at all about that? No, no, no. That was done in a friendly manner. Only things such as perhaps Marco at State Department where they have very confidential things, or the FBI, where they're working on confidential things. And they don't mean that in any way combatively with Elon.
How did the public react to the government's efficiency efforts?
They're just saying there are some people that you don't want to really have them tell you what they're working on. But other than that, I think everyone thought it was a pretty ingenious idea. We have to find out where these people are. Who are they? And we said, if you don't respond, we assume You're not around.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What are the highlights of today's 47 Morning Update?
0:20–1:31
2
What was the content of Elon's email to federal employees?
1:31–2:36
3
Why is there controversy over Elon's directive to federal employees?
2:36–3:47
4
How did the public react to the government's efficiency efforts?
3:47–4:05
5
What is Trump's plan for the Keystone XL Pipeline?
4:05–5:15
6
How has the Keystone XL Pipeline project evolved under Trump?
5:15–13:34
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